Rating: 
Summary: Quite boring.
Review: Typical TV Movie of the Week. Worth a rent, definitely not worthy of repeated viewings.
Rating:
Summary: Fails to Deliver
Review: Ugh, this should have been great. With some great supporting cast, the special effects abilities of today's studios, the budgets used for mini-series' such as this, and so on, this should have been fantastic. If you're looking for a film version of the classic myths and legends of Jason and the Argonauts, this isn't it. Not only does the film suffer from a weak script and a lead actor who has all the emoting capabilities of Keanu Reeves, but over half of the basic elements of the story are missing (the Sirens, Aeetes' warship fleet, Circe turning the men into swine, the stranding of the Argo on dry land, the Garden of Hesperides) and most remaining elements are wildly inaccurate (Jason's father, Pelias' son, Heracles/Hercules, the fate of just about all the Argonauts, etc.) As a story in it's own right... eh, it's just there - nothing special.
Rating: 
Summary: Sluggish version of the Jason legend
Review: When I saw this latest version of the story of Jason and his search for the fabled Golden Fleece was scheduled for broadcast on the Hallmark channel I was intrigued. Not only did the movie feature not one, but two of the most beautiful women in Hollywood today - Natasha (`Species') Henstridge and Jolene (`Enterprise') Blalock, but it also promised four hours of grand entertainment.
Why then was I, about an hour into it, looking wistfully over at my DVD collection and in particular the classic Harryhausen version of the tale and contemplating what could have been.
Essentially put, this new adaptation of the Greek legend is a dud. Not only is the lead actor wholly unconvincing throughout but the action is tired, the narrative too drawn out and the pace sluggish. It does not help either that Henstridge's part (although top billed) is essentially nothing more than an extended cameo and that Blalock is unrecognizable (after watching her in a scene it was only her voice that clued me in to it being her).
Also why is it that the set design and effects looked cheaper and less convincing than they did four decades earlier?
All in all this was a huge disappointment and something Hallmark should have done better. For an example of the channel getting these made-for-television features/mini-series right check out the simply superb and very entertaining `La Femme Musketeer.'
Rating:
Summary: What A Shame
Review: With a big budget, some great effects and some well known actors I had big hopes for this movie. My God was I disappointed. Jeremy London as Jason pulled the movie down. He had no charisma, no sense of leadership...I can't be bothered to go on about him. He just spoiled the movie from the start. Apart from him, I have no problem with the rest of the cast, more with the script. Sure there are plenty of encounters with monsters and the like, but no sense of danger of excitement. Half the cast never use swords, they just walk around and hope large clumps of rocks will fall on their foes. I think I can compare the movie to someone who has just woken up in the middle of the night and is dreamily performing functions like making a drink, but not really aware of what they're doing. I think my faith in Hallmark Entertainment is waning after the dire Journey To The Centre Of The Earth and now this...So why three stars? Well for Tv, its watchable enough. It could have been so much more, that's all. Jason's search for the golden fleece is classic storytelling and has everything from action to drama, personal tragedy to triumph...but in the hands of Hallmark it has been reduced to great looking scenary and some nice props... If you liked the original 1963 movie, you'll still prefer it and leave this movie feeling like you've been cheated. Please someone tell Jeremy London to start acting when the director yells ACTION. I don't think the director ever yells WALK AROUND LOOKING MISERABLE AND BORED...not unless he is making a movie about people who saw this one.
Rating: 
Summary: One reviewer made a mistake...
Review: You, see...this is to correct whatever Ravenlore said: This adaptation is not historically "inaccurate" because it it includes blacks in the cast. HELLO!!!! The ancients of Greece (and Rome, and wherever) DID trade, barter, and even hold as slaves (which isn't really anything to take pride in) AFRICAN--yes! BLACK SKINNED AFRICAN--people! So this movie isn't as "PC" as one reviewer said...it's simply realistic. If more reviewers would pick up a book and get off the internet, they might be able to give more intelligent reviews. Enjoy this film. Enjoy!
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